Papua New Guinea (PNG) has taken a major step in the fight against polio, with the arrival of more than 4.6 million life-saving vaccine doses to kickstart a nationwide immunisation blitz. The shipment ...

The World Health Organization says the PNG outbreak is linked to strains circulating in Indonesia, posing a serious risk to other countries in the region.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a polio outbreak in the country, and called for an immediate vaccination campaign. This follows environmental sampling that showed a re-emergence of ...

The perpetrators, who abducted the victims from the Middle Fly District in Western Province on 12 May, are demanding US$132,000 in ransom for their release.

Distrust of the COVID vaccine in PNG has spread to a general distrust of all vaccinations, according to local health professionals. “COVID vaccine resistance has translated into the hesitancy of ...

The World Health Organization says wild poliovirus type 2 was eradicated in 1999, but the deadly disease has been detected ...